Good. When $#@!ing piece of $#@! terrorists setup rocket launchers in schools, it's the terrorists fault when innocent bystanders get killed. It sucks, and I hate to see footage of kids bodies being carried away....but the world needs to come together and agree that people who use women and children as human shields should be hunted down and killed like the rabid dogs that they are. At least Israel is attempting to go after high value targets. Those $#@!ing terrorists just lob bombs not giving a $#@! who they hit. I say $#@!'em up good.

dude i'm not justifying Hamas act or something like that. Who started this war? Hamas and i know that. But, i can't close my eyes to Israel's way of handling the situation. Their acts are as $#@!ed up as Hamas'.

All people are equal. All lives are important. No one can say my life values more than yours. But you have to realize it's a war. You don't stop fighting because you've gone beyond your kill limit. No one does.

This is one of the moments that i say screw all the religions. People die left and right because of religion from the rise of the very first religion, they have done way more harm to our race than good.

This is one of the moments that i say screw all the religions. People die left and right because of religion from the rise of the very first religion, they have done way more harm to our race than good.

True, you ever wonder what would happen if every country stopped importing and exporting. Each country having to survive on its own. Only on what it can produce within itself.

I'd love to see that happen. While the US imports more than it exports....what we export is much more important to the rest of the world than what we import. For example, our computers, semiconductors and medical equipment make up 25% of our exports. Another 20% is made up of industrial machinery and equipment, plastics chemicals and petroleum products. We also export more services that we import.
The world would be screwed if we stopped all that. Especially considering the fact that the things that we import are mostly non essential items. We have plenty of oil reserves to last at least 50-75 years and during that time it would be easy to find alternative fuels to replace carbon based.

and we funded them for this in return for stakes in their technology, since it seems to be outdoing our Patriot Missile defenss lol

You can't compare the Iron Dome to the Patriot system - Iron dome cannot take out larger SAMS etc....and the original Patriot has been upgraded from the PAC2 and PAC3 and is not pretty much obsolete with the new MEADS missile defense system that is now taking it's place.

I'd love to see that happen. While the US imports more than it exports....what we export is much more important to the rest of the world than what we import. For example, our computers, semiconductors and medical equipment make up 25% of our exports. Another 20% is made up of industrial machinery and equipment, plastics chemicals and petroleum products. We also export more services that we import.
The world would be screwed if we stopped all that. Especially considering the fact that the things that we import are mostly non essential items. We have plenty of oil reserves to last at least 50-75 years and during that time it would be easy to find alternative fuels to replace carbon based.

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BTW Iron dome isnt weak $#@!. It is the most complex missle defense system in the world. It can actually detect the trajectory of a rocket, calculate where it is going to land and if it will not land in a pre-determined populated area the missle system will not fire, to conserve armament. Israel exports brainpower, lots of it. They have 10x more tech start-up companies per capita than any other country. They develop not just defense systems but also highly advanced photorecognition (your xbox kinect visual recognition was developed by an israeli company and sold to microsoft), they develop tons and tons of software and hardware for technical industries in every field.

This is a defensive system for mortars and crappy little rockets, completely different.

We gave them money so they could develop this and give them aid on top. It's not like we are getting anything out of it.

Originally Posted by fastgti69

A lot of programming an chip technologies for missile rockets etc comes from Israel. Just so you know, they are providing them with a brain pretty much. That's what US gets out of it.

Originally Posted by Sticky

It's in their interest to have those companies there (like Intel) producing chips so they can say hey we need defense look at how important our stuff is.

What fastgti and dbfiu said. Its up on wikileaks. We funded them in return for the technology they produced with our funds.

Yet the govt said NASA was a waste of taxpayer dollars. Where do you think all your navigation systems originated from? Google Maps? Your iphone maps? Your Garmin Nuvi or TomTom? And here we are using taxpayer dollars to fund Israel so we can get more tech out of them. I dont get it.

oh.... dec 21st is sooo far away, how could any of these events ever be correlated..?

im just waiting for the blue turbin to appear

The thing is, Israel does it right, don't $#@! around or were gonna fight back, its a pretty simple process, most violence, as fast as possible, as hard as possible, to get the result you want.. don't drag the $#@! out

Now when Russia does that everyone gets mad but US and Israel can do what ever they want somehow, media makes it justified.

What fastgti and dbfiu said. Its up on wikileaks. We funded them in return for the technology they produced with our funds.

Yet the govt said NASA was a waste of taxpayer dollars. Where do you think all your navigation systems originated from? Google Maps? Your iphone maps? Your Garmin Nuvi or TomTom? And here we are using taxpayer dollars to fund Israel so we can get more tech out of them. I dont get it.

We give them billions in aid and sell them our weaponry. Basically gifts, let's not act like we're getting something special out of this. This whole Israel issue puts the USA in a precarious position.